Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site mtx5a.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!whuxl!whuxlm!akgua!akguc!mtunh!mtuni!mtune!mtunf!mtx5c!mtx5d!mtx5a!mat From: mat@mtx5a.UUCP (m.terribile) Newsgroups: net.auto Subject: Re: Re: 65 MPH? Message-ID: <1220@mtx5a.UUCP> Date: Mon, 3-Mar-86 02:23:44 EST Article-I.D.: mtx5a.1220 Posted: Mon Mar 3 02:23:44 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 5-Mar-86 04:46:59 EST References: <152@ttidcc.UUCP> <567@mhuxl.UUCP> <315@ptsfb.UUCP> <3289@hplabsb.UUCP> <107@daemen.uucp> Organization: AT&T Information Systems, Middletown, NJ 07748-4801. Lines: 30 > In article <3289@hplabsb.UUCP>, piety@hplabsb.UUCP (Bob Piety) writes: > > > > I wonder how many of the 55 MPH supporters were licenced to drive when the > > limts were 70 MPH?....In fact, how many were even walking? > I was about 8 when my folks left Arizona for NYC by car, the speed limit > then was 65. I remember vividly a stretch of roadway in New Mexico, we > were doing ~70 and had not seen a car going in either direction > for about 3+ hours (We did see a lot of sand though :-}). I'm strictly an after-55 driver, but I've had the car past an indicated 65 on the Pennsy Turnpike. That really means about 73 in my Reliant, and I was in the right lane with enough traffic that I couldn't slow down and cars going 10 MPH faster in the left lane. We passed a speed trap with about 8 staties, and they were just watching the stream of traffic. I've also been up to about the same speeds on the NYS Thruway in Nyack. I can maintain 65-70 in top gear on the automatic on the hills, but I can't GET to that speed ... the 3-speed automatic and the engine (1st year production, with the CA(!) emissions package) leave some torque holes, I guess. As to highest POSTED speed: the Adirondack Northway used to be posted at 90 MPH. I remember riding up that way with Dad a few times. And the station wagon (with about a 32 gallon gas tank) had no trouble holding that speed. -- from Mole End Mark Terribile (scrape .. dig ) mtx5b!mat (Please mail to mtx5b!mat, NOT mtx5a! mat, or to mtx5a!mtx5b!mat) ,.. .,, ,,, ..,***_*.